"Welcome our hero back!"

Led the crowd, dilandal personally welcomed the return of the lion knight in the hall where the original evidence 01 was placed.

"Speaker! Please!"

The knight of the holy lion stood and saluted at one go, with a sonorous iron blood style.

"It seems that our heroic demeanor is better than ever!"

Dylandar nodded with satisfaction. At the same time, he also signaled that the commissioner who led the lion knight could leave. Then he stepped forward and patted the lion knight on the shoulder.

"Hard work, Kay."

"This is what I should do! There is nothing hard. Speaker! In order to protect the people of plant, I should go through fire and water!"

Said the lion knight.

Listening to the exchange between the speaker and the lion knight, the people around him nodded secretly.

As plant and ZAFT jointly publicized, the man who was promoted to the position of hero by the speaker is indeed qualified to have the title of knight.

"Hehe. OK! Let's not be polite here."

Dilandal smiled and did not continue on the topic of greetings.

He motioned slightly towards the crowd behind him, and several people left. I don't know where to go.

"I wanted to have a good talk with Kay, but just now a good news came to me. Therefore, I hope Kay can come with me."

"Yes! It's my pleasure! Speaker."

of course.

The crowd outside the Supreme Council has not dispersed yet.

Therefore, in the case that the security is considered to be at risk, dilandar naturally cannot leave from the front, but chooses to leave from the underground exit on the other side of the Supreme Council.

As the world outside the window changed from a dark underground garage to a bright city, dylandar slightly adjusted his sitting posture and turned to look at the world outside the car.

His eyes gradually focused on the huge rail elevator standing in the center of the city.

Clouds and fog linger around it, making the track elevator that is related to the operation artery of the whole satellite city hazy and abnormal.

The radiance of the elevators rising and falling along the track seems to be alive in the hazy clouds, sometimes bright and sometimes dark, like small fish that stir up ripples on the water.

According to the weather schedule of April, the satellite city will usher in a hazy drizzle soon.

"Kai. Now the security situation around plant has been stabilized. Among the distant colonial satellites, some people have sent requests to emigrate to plant, or ZAFT has sent a fleet to support. These are the credit of you and the first fleet you led. Therefore, the Supreme Council has made an assessment of your credit On the decision of reward. "

Dirandal withdrew his eyes from the gradually thick cloud and said to the lion Knight sitting opposite him.

"It's a shame. This is not something I can do alone. If I can, I hope the Supreme Council will pay more attention to the many soldiers who died to protect plant."

With his hands on his thighs and his waist straight, the lion Knight sitting upright did not care about his credit, but simply cared about the arrangement of his dead partners.

"Speaker."

Dylandal nodded slightly and looked at the mask in front of him.

"Say it! Kai, in the hearts of plant citizens, you are the guardian of our plant. Therefore, your voice and your speech are the voice that our Supreme Council must listen to."

The lion Knight did not immediately respond to Dylan Dahl's words that were almost promises, but looked back at the world outside the window and the city that kept flying through the window, as Dylan Dahl had just done.

"When I returned, I heard some rumors."

"Yes."

Dylandar put his hands together and put them on his abdomen, making a look of listening.

"At present, plant implements a material rationing system that gives priority to the supply of combatants and their family members."

The lion Knight paused, withdrew his eyes and looked at dilandal.

"Yes. Because of this, we plant can make ZAFT complete the adjustment of combat power layout in the shortest time and take the lead in completing the threat elimination strategy for the surrounding universe. Of course, it is also inseparable from the bloody struggle of many ZAFT soldiers."

Dylandar simply admitted this.

"That's true. But I found that in the first fleet and the friendly fleets that once helped the first fleet fight, there were some rumors that they refused to continue to provide materials for their families on the grounds that the soldiers were killed and the quota was cleared. I don't know if the speaker has heard such rumors?"

"Oh?!"

The eyes hidden by the mask keenly captured dilandal's surprise.

A look of surprise flashed across dilandal's face.

"What's going on? Kay, wait a minute."

With that, dilandal raised his hand and pressed a button on his side.

Then a strange and steady voice sounded.

"Speaker, what can I do for you?"

"You should have heard what the knight said. Investigate it as quickly as possible. Neither plant nor ZAFT allow the bullying of heroes. In addition, urgently allocate a batch of materials, unify them according to the list of casualties counted by the first fleet, and distribute them to their families in full. Well, it's up to you to personally supervise!"

"Yes!"

Dilandar, who disconnected the communication, had not yet opened his mouth and made a commitment to thoroughly investigate the incident, so he was preempted by the holy lion knight.

"Speaker. Thank you very much!"

"No. that's what I should do. When you fight hard on the front line, my duty is to stabilize the rear and provide an environment where you have no worries."

With that, dylandar sighed.

"But this time, it's my dereliction of duty. Kai, if I can, I hope to personally apologize to the hero's family after the incident is investigated."

"Yes! I will personally accompany the speaker."

After that, there was nothing to say.

Although dylandar still has a lot to say in his heart and wants to talk to the holy lion knight in front of him, under this episode, dylandar knows that this is not the best time.

What's more, this episode is not a bad thing.

When the hazy drizzle wet the main road to the factory area near cosmos port in April, dilandal and the holy lion Knight came to a working genaku deep in the factory area.

The sense of weightlessness brought by the microgravity environment makes the body subconsciously miss the heaviness of the gravity environment. Dilandal's eyebrows wrinkled uncontrollably, and he didn't seem to be able to immediately adapt to the slight discomfort brought by the microgravity environment.

"It seems that after getting used to the microgravity environment, you will feel uncomfortable with the microgravity environment."

Dilandar smiled at himself and raised his hand to signal the two ZAFT soldiers in front of the large gate to open the gate.

"Come on, Kay. There's something I need to show you."

Behind the gate, except for the figure of dilandal, it was dark.

But the darkness made the lion Knight feel familiar.

yes!

That's the familiarity from the depths of memory.

"Oh!"

In an instant, a stabbing pain suddenly appeared from the depths of my mind, splitting the fog like nine days of thunder.

At the moment when the fog dispersed, a dazzling light also expelled the darkness behind dilandal, and fully presented the truth wrapped in the darkness.

Dark gray steel body,

Even in the closed state, it also looks like huge steel wings,

As long as you see it at the first sight, you will not forget its existence, and let the holy lion Knight call it by its name.

"Freedom, freedom up to!?"

you 're right!

This is the legendary body that became famous in the first World War of Yakin Dewey. At the same time, it is also a stand-alone body that completely resists the launch of Genesis - free Gundam!

"Speaker, I remember that Freedom Gundam has been destroyed by the attack of Genesis. Isn't it?"

As the "party", the lion knight was very confused.

"Yes. This is not the Freedom Gundam of Yakin Dewey's debut in the first World War. It is the accidental discovery of ZAFT's technical department when cleaning up previous documents."

Dylan Dahl smiled, and there seemed to be a trace of pride in his eyes.

"Of course. What we found at that time was only part of the design drawings. In order to completely recover these incomplete design drawings, our technical department invested a lot of manpower and material resources to succeed. And at the moment of the victory and return of the first fleet, we were finally able to reproduce this MS like the patron saint of mankind."

Under the gaze of the lion knight, dilandal stretched out his finger and pointed to the dark gray steel giant.

"Knight. Although your existence and reputation have saved plant from crisis, no matter how powerful your ability is, you are only a human after all."

Durandal's eyes moved away from the steel giant and landed on the lion Knight's mask.

"No matter how powerful a knight is, he always needs a sword, a sword enough to kill any strong enemy!"

"It integrates the latest crystallization created by the cutting-edge technology owned by plant and ZAFT, and it is also the sharp sword that our Supreme Council hopes to place on your hand and controlled by you!"

"Sword? Freedom up to?"

The lion knight was silent for a moment, looked up again and looked at dilandal.

"Speaker, this is no longer the Freedom Gundam of World War I of Yakin Dewey. If this is the expectation of the Supreme Council, then I prefer to call it guarding freedom. Guarding plant, guarding the freedom of all citizens Gundam!"

"Oh?"

Dylandal was surprised, but he smiled.

"Really? Guard freedom? Maybe this is a good name and a good match for it!"

After a pause, dilandal said again.

"The body is assigned to you. The name is naturally up to you. Kai."